With Latest Update, Yelp Finally Lets You Write Full Reviews From Your iPhone

Yelp is occasionally a godsend when you're on the road and you're looking for neighborhood eats, but until now its iOS incarnation has been severely hampered by an inability to write full reviews straight from your iPhone. That all changes today, as Yelp has finally delivered the long-awaited feature with its latest update.

As it worked in the past, you'd have to write a few snippets detailing your thoughts in the app and then go home and finish it on a desktop computer. As a result (at least if I can claim to speak for all Yelp users), you often never got around to writing it. Now, however, you can write down your thoughts about the freshness of the sushi or how rude that guy with the Jayne hat can be while the thoughts are fresh on your mind.

It's worth nothing that the iPad version of the Yelp app has had this feature for some time, although its absence in the iPhone version has long led to users leaving acidic comments on the app's review page. The idea behind the omission was to keep the quality of the reviews up, as mentioned in a blog post from way back in December of 2009: "But why not full reviews? Well imagine what it would be like if reviews were done in SMS shorthand: "OK so, IANAE, but AFAIC this place has THE best Cfood. It was gr8! ADBB."

As evidenced by its patch notes, though, Yelp itself is aware that the update's kind of a big deal: "Today’s release is pretty epic, and we’re not kidding around. Are you sitting down? You might want to sit down. Starting today, you can add reviews from your phone! Visit any business page, tap 'add review', and go bananas."

If you're ready to go bananas, you can download the app from the App Store here.